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Patented June 24, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIon.

PETER J. HONAKER, JR, AND GEORGE F. SEISER, OF PORT ROYAL, KENTUCKY.

PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 430,737, dated June 24, 1890.

Application filed December 10, 1889. Serial No. 333,203. (No model.)

tion.

Our invention relates to improvements in presses, and aims to provide a press. adapted for hay, cotton, cider, or other articles of merchandise.

The main object of our invention is to provide a press in which the plunger or follower may be readily shifted from one end of the frame to the other, so as to permit one barrel or press-box to be filled while the contents of another one is being operated upon.

The invention further aims to improve the construction of the press; and it consists in certain novel features, which will be hereinafter first fully described, and then particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of our improved p'ress. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section taken through the press just alongside the plunger. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section taken through the slot in the head of the frame. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the lock for preventing movement of the plunger or follower.

In carrying out our invention we employ a frame A, which consists of the lower longitudinal beams B, connected by the cross-bars C, the upper beam D, having a longitudinal slot E, and the braces and standards F G, rising from the eross-bars to the upper longitudinal beam. The upper beam D is provided on its upper side with a longitudinal rack-bar H, and a yoke I is mounted 011 the said beam and is adapted to slide along the same. A transverse shaft J is journaled in the upper end of the yoke I, and is movable endwise in its bearings. This shaft is provided wit-h a crank-arm K at one end, by means of which the shaft may be rotated, and a pinion L is secured on the said shaft and adapted to engage the raclebar H on the up per side of the beam D. The plunger M is mounted in the yoke I, and is provided at its upper end on one side with the rack-teeth O,

which are adapted to be engaged by the pinion L, so as to raise the plunger. The plunger depends below the yoke I, and is provided at its lower end with a presser-plate P, and it is provided on its opposite sides with the rack-teeth Q, In the lower ends of the yoke I we journal the transverse shafts R, on which pinions S are secured, and the said pinions mesh with the rack-teeth Q on the opposite sides of the plunger. The ends of the shafts R project beyond the sides of the yoke, and ratchet-wheels T are secured thereon, and the said ratchet-wheels are engaged by the the pawls U, carried by the lovers V, which are loosely mounted on the said shafts.

Above the pinions S the yokeI is provided with the transverse slots or openings W, and in these openings we mount the sliding dogs or latches X, which are provided at their inner ends with lugs or teeth Y, which are adapted to engage the rack-teeth Q on the sides of the plunger, and thereby prevent movement of the plunger. These dogs are normally projected inward by springs Z, secured at their upper ends to the sides of the yoke and having their lower ends engaging slots or openings at in the dogs, as clearly shown. These dogs are provided on their sides with the lateral pins 1), which engage the slots cin the yoke, and thereby prevent the dogs from falling. On the end of each dog we pivot the cams d, which are adapted to bear on the sides of the yoke, and when turned downward to force the dogs outward, so that they will be disengaged from the rack-teeth, and thereby permit movement of the plunger.

In practice a barrel or press-box is arranged within the supporting-frame at one end of the same, and the plunger is adjusted over the said barrel, after which the levers are vibrated to rotate the shafts R and the pinions thereon, so as to feed the plunger downward onto the contents of the barrel or pressbox. The dogs are then allowed to engage the teeth on the plunger, so as to hold it in its lowered position, while the closure for the barrel is being prepared. While one operator is pressing the contents of one barrel, another barrel is filled by another operator at the other end of the frame, so that the plunger, after being raised, may be shifted to the opposite end of the frame, and then operated to press the contents of the second barrel, so that the material will be rapidly acted on. The plunger is raised by disengaging the pawls U and latches X, and then shifting the pinion at the upper end of the yoke into engagement with the rack-bar at the upper end of the plunger, and then rotating the said pinion, as will be readily understood. After the plunger has been raised it is locked in its raised postion by the dogs, and the pinion is then shifted to engage the rack-bar on the upper side of the beam D, so that upon rotating the pinion the plunger will be moved to the other end of the frame.

It will be observed that by the use of our improved press the material being compressed will be rapidly disposed of, and the operation will be practically continuous. The plunger is effectually locked against movement by the dogs, and it can be very easily and --rapidly raised and lowered by the mechanism described. The operating-levers may be arranged so that they can both be manipulated 'of means, substantially as described, for movin g the plungervertically independent of said pinion, as set forth.

2. In a press, the combination of the frame having a rack-bar on its upper side, the yoke mounted on the frame, the plunger carried by the yoke, m eans, substantially as described, for moving said plunger, and the transverse shaft mounted in the upper end of the yoke and carrying a pinion engaging the rack-bar on the upper side of the frame, as set forth.

3. The combination of the frame having a rack-bar on its upper side, the yoke mounted on the frame, the plunger mounted in the yoke and having the raek bar at its upper end, the endwise-movable shaft mounted 1n the upper end of the yoke, and the pinion on the said sh aft, adapted toengage the rack-bar on the frame or the rack-bar on the plunger, as set forth.

4. The combination, with the frame having a rack-bar, a yoke on the frame, a plunger mounted on said yoke and having side rackbars near its ends, a laterally-moving shaft in the yoke, and a pinion on said shaft, sliding longitudinally to engage the rack-bar on the frame or the rackbar on the plunger, of the dogs mounted in said yoke, and means for throwing them into or out of engagement with the lower racks 011 the plunger, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the frame, the yoke mounted thereon, the plunger mounted in said yoke and provided with rack-bars on its sides, the pinions engaging said rack-bars and secured on shafts in the lower end of the yoke, the ratchet-wheels on said shafts, levers having pawls for operating said ratchetwheels, and sliding dogs mounted in the yoke and adapted to engage the rack-bars, with independent means, substantiallyas described, for moving the yoke on the frame or the plunger in the yoke, as set forth.

6. The combination of the frame, the yoke mounted thereon, the plunger carried by the yoke and having rack-bars on its sides, means for raising and lowering the plunger, the sliding dogs mounted in the yoke and engaging the said rack-bars, the springs secured to the yoke and engaging the dogs, and the cams pivoted on the ends of the dogs and bearing on the sides of the yoke, as set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affiXed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

PETER J. HONAKER, JR. GEORGE F. SEISER.

\Vitnesses:

T. J. CUMMING, O. J. RANSDELL. 

